Title :	Alanis Obomsawin-The Collection : "My Name is Kahentiiosta" & "Spudwrench-Kahnawake Man"
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Alanis Obomsawin, Author
Publisher:	National Film Board of Canada
Publication Date:	2008
ISBN (or other code):	978-0-7722-1219-1
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	Audio/visual Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples
Abstract:	My Name is Kahentiiosta : This affecting film , profiles a young, courageous Kahnawake Mohawk woman who was arrested after a 78 day armed standoff in 1990 between the Mohawks and the Canadian federal government. Kahentiiosta is detained four days longer than other women because the court refuses to accept her aboriginal name. MY NAME IS KAHENTIIOSTA is a compelling look at a peopleís movement for self-determination and one young womanís refusal to capitulate in the face of great adversity. Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man : Meet Randy Horne, high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as 'Spudwrench' during the 1990 Oka crisis. Horne was behind the barricades, resisting the efforts of the municipality of Oka to expand a golf course onto sacred Mohawk land. Horne is one of many Mohawk high steel workers who have travelled the continent, working on some of the world's tallest buildings--but have never lost touch with their roots. Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him, and a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred territory.

Alanis Obomsawin-The Collection : "My Name is Kahentiiosta" & "Spudwrench-Kahnawake Man" [printed text] / Alanis Obomsawin, Author . - [S.l.] : National Film Board of Canada, 2008.
ISBN : 978-0-7722-1219-1
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:

Audio/visual Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples

Abstract:

My Name is Kahentiiosta : This affecting film , profiles a young, courageous Kahnawake Mohawk woman who was arrested after a 78 day armed standoff in 1990 between the Mohawks and the Canadian federal government. Kahentiiosta is detained four days longer than other women because the court refuses to accept her aboriginal name. MY NAME IS KAHENTIIOSTA is a compelling look at a peopleís movement for self-determination and one young womanís refusal to capitulate in the face of great adversity. Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man : Meet Randy Horne, high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as 'Spudwrench' during the 1990 Oka crisis. Horne was behind the barricades, resisting the efforts of the municipality of Oka to expand a golf course onto sacred Mohawk land. Horne is one of many Mohawk high steel workers who have travelled the continent, working on some of the world's tallest buildings--but have never lost touch with their roots. Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him, and a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred territory.